Cray Debuts AMD EPYC™ Processors in Supercomputer Product Line
18 April 2018 - 11:00PM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
it has added AMD EPYC™ processors to its Cray® CS500™ product
line. To meet the growing needs of high-performance computing
(HPC), the combination of AMD EPYC™ 7000 processors with the Cray
CS500 cluster systems offers Cray customers a flexible,
high-density system tuned for their demanding environments. The
powerful platform lets organizations tackle a broad range of HPC
workloads without the need to rebuild and recompile their x86
applications.
"Cray's decision to offer the AMD EPYC processors in
the Cray CS500 product line expands its market
opportunities by offering buyers an important new choice," said
Steve Conway, senior vice president of research at Hyperion
Research. "The AMD EPYC processors are expressly designed
to provide highly scalable, energy- and cost-efficient performance
in large and midrange clusters."
The Cray CS500 systems with AMD EPYC processors also come with
Cray’s software programing environment. Cray has integrated and
optimized the Cray Programming Environment and libraries to enhance
AMD EPYC processor performance.
“Our decision to offer AMD EPYC processors in our CS500 product
line is emblematic of Cray’s commitment to the community to deliver
a comprehensive line of high-density systems with an optimized
programing environment to deliver the required performance and
scalability,” said Fred Kohout, senior vice president of products
and chief marketing officer at Cray.
“Cray’s leadership in supercomputing is well known and AMD is
thrilled to be working with them on the CS500 cluster system,” said
Scott Aylor, corporate vice president and general manager,
datacenter and embedded solutions, AMD. “Cray is the first system
vendor to offer an optimized programming environment for AMD
EPYC processors, which is a distinct advantage. Combining AMD EPYC
processors with Cray’s supercomputing expertise opens new
opportunities for both companies to grow.”
The Cray CS500 cluster systems with AMD EPYC 7000 processors
provide four dual-socket nodes in a 2U chassis, each node
supporting two (2) PCIe Gen3 x 16 slots (200Gb network capability)
and HDD/SSD options. AMD EPYC 7000 processors support up to 32
cores and eight DDR4 memory channels per socket. The CS500 line
will also include a 2U chassis with one node for large memory
configurations, visualization, and service node functionality to
complement the compute node form factor.
The Cray CS500 system with AMD EPYC processors will be generally
available in summer 2018.
For more information, please visit the Cray website at
www.cray.com.
About Cray Inc.Global supercomputing leader
Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions
enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia and
government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics
challenges. Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in
developing and servicing the world’s most advanced supercomputers,
Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers and big
data storage and analytics solutions delivering unrivaled
performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray’s Adaptive
Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative
next-generation products that integrate diverse processing
technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to
meet the market’s continued demand for realized performance. Go to
www.cray.com for more information.
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